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On January 21, 2002, I hit the [http://www.exitwound.org/gifs/XP666.jpg|XP of The Beast]!
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<B>[id://111066|My First Post]</B> (as an [Anonymous Monk]) - Can you find yours? It's out there somewhere...
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<B>About my nick</B>: See KISS, Love Gun, 1977, Ace Frehley.
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<B>Languages other than Perl</B>:
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<LI>Basic - Don't laugh. When I started, it was a required course at my college.
<LI>Fortran 77
<LI>COBOL - along with VMS JCL (ugh) and CICS (ugh-ugh)
<LI>Prolog - my first self-taught language. I suck.
<LI>Snobol - anybody remember this one? My second self-taught language. I got in alot of trouble at [http://www.ti.com|Texas Instruments] for writing a production system in this language. Of course, the system worked perfectly and ultimately saved the company in the 10's of thousands of dollars ... but I still got slammed by the PHBs (who ultimately claimed credit for their "huge cost saving idea").
<LI>C
<LI>PHP - my fourth self-taught language.
<LI>and one or two others that I either can't recall or have forced from my memory
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<B>OS's</B>:
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<LI>[http://www.linux.com|Linux] - [http://www.debian.org|Debian], [http://www.redhat.com|RedHat] and [http://www.mandrakesoft.com|Mandrake]
<LI>[http://www.sun.com/solaris|Solaris]
<LI>[http://www.microsoft.com|Win9x, WinNT, Win2k and WinXP]
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<B>Databases</B>
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<LI>[http://www.mysql.com|MySQL]
<LI>[http://www.oracle.com|Oracle]
<LI>[http://www.postgresql.org|PostgreSQL]
<LI>[http://www.microsoft.com|Access & SQL Server]
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<B>Contribution(s)</B>:
I wrote the Chatter.pm module for <a href="http://perlbot.sourceforge.net">perlbot</a>. It allows perlbot to be something of an infobot, by taking whatever is said in the chatroom and performing a regex comparison against a <a href="http://www.mysql.com">MySQL</a> database. Whoopee. Look for it in the 1.2.3 (or later) release.
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<B>Join</B> the <a href="http://iosef.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Perlmonks">Perl Monks Seti@Home Group</a>.
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<B>Indispensible books</B>:
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<LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565922840&from=MDZ411">Learning Perl</a> - If you never written a lick of code, this book is perfect for you. By the time you get to the end, you'll be coding Perl with ease.
<LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565922433&from=MDZ411">The Perl Cookbook</a> - Probably the <I>only</I> shortcoming is O'Reilly's failure to include a disk or CD containing the code examples. This book is an incredible time saver and a great learning tool.
<LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=0596000278&from=MDZ411">Programming Perl 3rd Ed</a> - The bible. Plain and simple. This is the stuff.
<LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565922573&from=MDZ411">Mastering Regular Expressions</a> - If you don't understand why you need to know this, you're just not paying attention.
<LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565926099&from=MDZ411">Perl For System Administration</a> - Incredible cross-platform information. Whether you're on Linux or WinWhatever, you'll find some really good information here.
<LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565924266&from=MDZ411">Learning The vi Editor</a> - Good stuff. Really good.
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<B>Books I'm soon to own and read <I>(come on Santa!)</I></B>:
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<LI>[Data Munging With Perl]
<LI>[Mastering Algorithms With Perl]
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I really get a kick out of writing humorous perl poetry. I don't know why. Anyway.... <B>Some of my "more memorable" nodes</B>:
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<LI>[A Night at the Bar]
<LI>[The Pick-Up Artist] - my highest rated node to date. This speaks volumes as to my substantive contributions....
<LI>[The Choice] - a terrible attempt at zen-like poetry. This is what happens when keyboards and alcohol collide.
<LI>[A Beginner's Guide to Using Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin] - definitely neither poetry nor funny...well, maybe funny...but in a serious <I>tutorial</I>-type way. Props to [jcwren] for the most excellent and informative response.
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<B>All of my <a href="/index.pl?node_id=6364&usersearch=shockme&orderby=createtime%
20DESC">pathetic nodes</A></B>
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<B>Nodes that I enjoy</B>:
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<LI>[Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO]
<LI>[How to get the most of your question from the monks]
<LI>[The path to mastery]
<LI>[using strict and functions]
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<B>Some information that's good to know, the location of which is not necessarily immediately obvious</B>:
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<LI>[Best Nodes]
<LI>[Chatterbox Clients]
<LI>[Level Powers]
<LI>[Most Often Mentioned Modules]
<LI>[Most Visited Nodes]
<LI>[New Chatterbox functionality] - /msg'ing users
<LI>[Number of Monks by Level]
<LI>[Our Best Users]
<LI>[Perl Monks Approved HTML Tags]
<LI>[Perl Monks Stats Pages]
<LI>[Super Search] - when all else fails...
<LI>Some History - props to [VSarkiss]<UL>
<LI>[The True Catacombs of Perlmonks]
<LI>[Tux vs. Daemon|The First Poetry Submission]
<LI>[By Sharon Hopkins (also in Programming Perl)|The Second Poetry Submission] - <I>really</I> good.
<LI>[How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array?|The First Question]
<LI>[What we need...|The First Meditation]
<LI>[Halloween Fun|The First Cool Use For Perl]
<LI>[Accidentally Creating Nodes|The First PM Discussion]
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<LI>[Worst Nodes]
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<B>Who is [Node Reaper]?</B>
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From [turnstep]'s node (repeated here for <I>my</I> convenience):
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The [NodeReaper]'s main job is to "harvest" posts that the community feels is of no value. These can be duplicate posts, off-topic posts, trolls, or anything else. All monks at level 6 or higher can nominate a post to the [Nodes to Consider] page. Once it has been moved there, all level 6 or higher monks can vote to delete it, keep it, or edit it. Once a post has a certain number of "delete" votes (currently 5) without having reached a certain number of "keep" votes (currently 2), the [NodeReaper] will swoop in and claim the node. Once he does, ownership of the node is transferred from the original owner to the [NodeReaper]. The node's content is replaced with a short message containing a link to the original text. The reason for the node's deletion (as entered by the level 6+ monk who nominated the node) is shown at the top of the node. Any future votes on the node will go towards the [NodeReaper], and not the original poster of the node. The negative writeups is because [NodeReaper] has no need to obey the normal laws of physics in the Monastery - you'll have to ask *him* what the number means. :)
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<B>Obligatory Geek Code</B> (<a href="http://www.ebb.org/cgi-bin/ungeek.cgi?geekCode=GJ%2FIT+d-+s%3A+a+C%2B%2B%2B+UL%2B%2B%2B%2B%24+P%2B%2B%2B%24+%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0AL%2B%2B%2B%24+E---+W%2B%2B+N%2B%40+o+K-+w%2B%24+O-+M-+V+%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0APS%2B+PE+Y%2B+PGP%2B%2B+t%2B%40+5%40+X%2B%2B+R+tv%2B%40%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0Ab%2B+DI%2B%2B%2B%2B+D%2B+G%2B%2B+e%2B%2B%2B%2B+h----+r%2B%2B%2B+%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0Ay%2B%2B%2B">Decode me</a>):
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-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GJ/IT d- s: a C+++ UL++++$ P+++$
L+++$ E--- W++ N+@ o K- w+$ O- M- V
PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5@ X++ R tv+@
b+ DI++++ D+ G++ e++++ h---- r+++
y+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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<B>Obligatory Perl Geek Code</B> (<a href="http://www.xmltwig.com/cgi-bin/pgc/pgc_decode?code=P%2B%2B%2B$c-P6%20R%20M%2BO%2BMA%20E%20PU%20BD%20C%2B%2BD%2B%2BS%2B%2BX-WP%2BMO!PP%20n-CO--PO%20o%20G%20A--OL!Ee---Ev%2B%2BEon-Eot-uL%2B%2BuS%2BuH%2Buo%2Bw%20m!osA%2B&version=0.01">Decode me</a>):
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-----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 0.01
P+++$c-P6 R M+O+MA E PU BD
C++D++S++X-WP+MO!PP n-CO--PO o G
A--OL!Ee---Ev++Eon-Eot-uL++uS+uH+uo+w
m!osA+
------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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